| Description |
1 online resource (vii, 265 p.) |
| Contents |
"None but the dead are permitted to tell the truth": Mark Twain's missives to the future / Shelley Fisher Fishkin -- The ultimate secrecy: feminist readings of masculine trauma in Vietnam War literature / Carmen Méndez Garcia -- (Don't) trust the U.S. government: Paul Greengrass's United 93 and the 9/11 conspiracy theories / Esther Pérez Villalba -- The desert as a national sacrifice zone: the nuclear controversy in Nevada fiction / David Río -- Hidden truths and open lies: the performance of U.S. history and mythography in Tony Kushner's Angels in America and its film adaptation / Boris Vejdovsky -- Dirty laundry on the line: staging the nation in contemporary U.S. drama and performance / Robert Vorlicky -- Lolita, the secret of/in Lolita: "poerotics" of secrecy / Marie C. Bouchet -- American secrets on the road toward the west / Carmen Induráin Eraso -- Family secrets: carving identity out of silence in borderlands/ La Frontera / Inmaculada Lara Bonilla -- The black sheep I am: Anne Sexton, madness, and the performance of confession / Steve Schessler -- Dickinson, doubt, and the skeptical argument: notes for a defense of the unspoken / Paul Scott Derrick -- Enabling secrecy: hermeneutics, the lyric, and Dickinson's poem 340 / Jefferey Simons -- Whispers in the wind, visions in the fog: nature's secrets in Linda Hogan's novels / Carmen Flys Junquera -- Blood on the tire iron: battle on secret ideological frontiers in "Brokeback mountain" / Christian Hummelsund Voie -- Secret links in Edwidge Danticat's The dew breaker: reflections on another composite novel by an ethnic writer / Aitor Ibarrola-Armendáriz -- AIDS: the disease with no name?: Jamaica Kincaid's My brother (1997) / María Frías |
| Summary |
Predicated upon the principles of political freedom, cultural openness, religious tolerance, individual self-reliance, and ethnic diversity, the United States of America has been tempted recurrently by the lures of the secret. American Secrets explores this political, historical, and cultural phenomenon from many, often surprisingly, overlapping angles in these analyses of the literary and cultural uses and abuses of secrecy within a democratic culture. Through analyses of diverse literary works andcultural manifestations-from Mark Twain's anti-imperialist prophecies to 9/11 conspiracy theorie |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 241-257) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed |
| Subject |
American literature -- History and criticism.
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Secrecy in literature.
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Secrecy -- Political aspects -- United States
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Secrecy -- Social aspects -- United States
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
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American literature
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Secrecy in literature
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Barros-Grela, Eduardo, 1974-
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Listé-Noya, Jose, 1962-
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| LC no. |
2021680508 |
| ISBN |
9781611470079 |
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1283246341 |
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9781283246347 |
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9786613246349 |
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6613246344 |
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1611470072 |
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